The first team ranking of the 2019 season is out. And it's an important one since it determines which 15 teams will be auto-invited to all WWT races.

(sorry for the below-average formatting, it's copy-pasted off the UCI site - please do get that sorted, Aiglons!)

Rank

Name

Points

1

BOELS DOLMANS CYCLINGTEAM

5002.67

2

Mitchelton Scott

4246.44

3

CCC - LIV

3712.09

4

TREK - SEGAFREDO

3092.55

5

Team Sunweb

3083.06

6

CANYON // SRAM Racing

2766.01

7

WNT ROTOR Pro Cycling Team

2082.17

8

Team Virtu Cycling

1925.25

9

VALCAR CYLANCE CYCLING

1803.01

10

MOVISTAR TEAM WOMEN

1746.28

11

Team TIBCO - Silicon Valley Bank

1730.41

12

PArkhotel Valkenburg

1501.20

13

ale cipollini

1492.56

14

FDJ NOUVELLE-Aquitaine Futuroscope

1491.32

15

BIGLA

1462.90

16

BTC CITY LJUBLJANA

1386.67

17

ASTANA WOMEN'S TEAM

1350.00

18

COGEAS METTLER look pro cycling team

1318.66

19

LOTTO SOUDAL LADIES

1038.00

20

Rally UHC Cycling

652.00

21

DOLTCINI - VAN EYCK SPORT UCI WOMEN CYCLING

601.00

22

SWAPIT AGOLICO

577.00

23

AROMITALIA - BASSO BIKES - VAIANO

493.00

24

Health mate - ladies Team

476.83

25

SERVETTO - PIUMATE - BELTRAMI TSA

356.50

26

BEPINK

341.33

27

HITEC PRODUCTS - BIRK SPORT

303.49

28

MINSK CYCLING CLUB

241.00

29

HAGENS BERMAN / SUPERMINT

239.00

30

Sho - Air TWENTY20

232.00

31

CHINA LIV PRO CYCLING

223.00

32

EUROTARGET - BIANCHI - VITTORIA

155.00

33

Drops

140.57

34

bizkaia - durango

121.00

35

LVIV Cycling Team

91.00

36

charente - maritime women cycling

69.00

37

BIEHLER Pro cycling

64.25

38

ENEICUE CYCLING TEAM

63.00

39

TOP GIRLS FASSA BORTOLO

45.00

40

SOPELA WOMEN'S TEAM

33.00

Comparing the top-15 to last years', there are several changes:Trek-Segafredo goes into fourth place immediately as a new team. Previously-existing teams that have moved up are Movistar (who were 'only' ranked 25th on the basis of the 2018 roster, but had an excellent season), WNT Rotor (on the basis of their new signings), Tibco-SVB (mostly due to signing Guarnier ... we'll see how much she'll actually race), and Parkhotel Valkenburg (partly due to Wiebes, but with their new signings putting them over the bar).Alé Cipollini and Bigla both plummet after losing star riders like Bastianelli, Santesteban, Moolman-Pasio, and Lepistö, but manage to just stay in the top-15. Other teams were not as lucky - Wiggle High5 and Cylance folded completely, while BTC City Ljubljana, Hitec Products, and Astana will have to rely on invitations this year.